secretary general

1. 1.

   a person who is a chief administrator (as of the United Nations)

   Broaderadministrator

Questions about secretary general

What does secretary general mean?

secretary general means "a person who is a chief administrator (as of the United Nations)".

Is secretary general a common word?

secretary general is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.